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...NORTH CAROLINA. His name is so long that first-generation Greek-American Nick Galifianakis, 43, divides it between two campaign buttons and explains the spelling as beginning with a "gal" and ending with a "kiss." North Carolinians do not seem to mind that kind of corn. Shaggy-haired three-term Congressman Galifianakis, who upset Everett Jordan in the Democratic primary, is now a narrow favorite...
...better position to reflect the intensity of anger and restiveness among the nation's farmers than Iowa Republican Congressman William J. Scherle, 48. A husky (6 ft. 3 in., 249 lbs.) feed-grain and livestock farmer from a diversified agricultural area near the Missouri River, the three-term Congressman has vainly tried to warn the Nixon Administration about its political vulnerability in the Midwest. He expressed his frustration last week to TIME Correspondent Jess Cook...
...indeed been sweet. Beginning with his hardscrabble boyhood on a Texas farm, he has been irresistibly drawn to wealth and power and has managed, by an adroit mixture of dash and obsequence, to gain both. As Lyndon B. Johnson's Wolsey for more than 30 years and a three-term Democratic Governor of Texas, he learned well the means of acquiring and using political power. Now he is one of the most potent and magnetic personalities in Richard Nixon's Washington, the chief designer of Phase I, the prime enforcer of Phase II, and by most accounts the strongest Treasury...
...written or telegraphed McCloskey to cheer him on, but they have donated only $10,000. McCloskey has another $10,000 from California Industrialist Norton Simon, a liberal antiwar Republican, with a vague promise of more if, explains McCloskey, "I measure up as a candidate." The relatively unknown three-term Representative has light-years to go before he can make that claim; a recent Gallup poll of registered Republicans showed that only 1% would want him to be the party's candidate if Nixon were to bow out. Quips one of McCloskey's undaunted aides: "We're gaining...
Died. Thomas E. Dewey, 68, three-term Governor of New York and twice a Republican presidential nominee (see THE NATION...